Bibliograph

29 locks, Nicola Garrard

Type

Label

29 locks, Nicola Garrard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Intended audience

720L, Lexile

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

29 locks

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Nicola Garrard

Summary

Fast-paced, tragic and tender, 29 Locks is an unflinching depiction of urban teen life. Growing up in Hackney with his loving but troubled single mum, fifteen-year-old Donny's life has been shaped by poverty, crime and casual violence, including grooming by a local gang. When his mum is jailed for drugs offences, Donny is fostered outside London to the Hertfordshire countryside. Life in the rural Home Counties is a bit like landing on another planet but doing work experience on the Hertford Union Canal, Donny feels like he's finally found his purpose. When Donny's posh new friend Zoe is offered a dubious modelling audition in London, the pair decide to 'borrow' a canal barge and navigate the 29 locks down to Kings Cross. As they start out on their journey the future looks as unpromising as Zoe's fake audition. But, as each lock is navigated and conquered, their adventures take on a new dimension, and life will never be the same again

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Twenty-nine locks

Classification